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Wallace Stegner weaves together fiction and nonfiction, history and impressions, childhood remembrance and adult reflections in this unusual portrait of his boyhood. Set in Cypress Hills in southern Saskatchewan, where Stegner's family homesteaded from 1914 to 1920, Wolf Willowbrings to life both the pioneer community and the magnificent landscape that surrounds it.

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Wallace Stegner was born in 1909 in Lake Mills, Iowa. The son of Scandinavian immigrants, he traveled with his parents and brother all over the West-to North Dakota, Washington, Saskatchewan, Montana, and Wyoming-before settling in Salt Lake City in 1921. Many of the landscapes he encountered in his peripatetic youth figure largely in ...

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Table of Contents

Introduction by Page StegnerSuggestions for Further Reading

I. The Question Mark in the Circle1. The Question Mark in the Circle2. History Is a Pontoon Bridge3. The Dump Ground

II. Preparation for a Civilization1. First Look2. The Divide3. Horse and Gun4. Half World: The Metis5. Company of Adventurers6. Last of the Exterminators7. The Medicine Line8. Law in a Red Coat9. Capital of an Unremembered Past

III. The Whitemud River Range1. Specification for a Hero2. Genesis3. Carrion Spring

IV. Town and Country1. The Town Builders2. Whitemud, Saskatchewan3. The Garden of the World4. The Making of Paths